Since my family's move a year ago from Baltimore to a kibbutz in northern Israel, driving by the growing Arab villages and towns that dot the roads of the Galilee has given me an uneasy feeling. I have so little contact with this ever-increasing population. Who are these non-Jewish neighbors of ours? What do they think about us? Can they accept the notion of a Jewish state as long as their political and human rights are protected? As I drive past their homes and communities, I want to go talk to them and ask them how they feel.

Probably the biggest tinderbox in the world today is the Holy Land, with the problems between Israel and Palestine continuing to deteriorate. But before I say more, I want to affirm as forcefully as I can that I completely support Israel and its right...

Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians face a Catch-22. As the Sun's editorial, "Mr. Abbas' mission" (Feb. 13) points out, a unity government between Mr. Abbas' Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza is a necessary precondition to...

On Sept. 13, 1993, current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and current Israeli President Shimon Peres signed at the While House the so-called Oslo Accords, ushering in a new era and hopes of peace in the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli...

Peace Now, a group known for its vocal stand against Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, says a senior member of its team has received a death threat. It was the latest in a string of incidents blamed on Jewish extremists protesting the...

According to schedule, Benjamin Netanyahu's government has until November 2013 before elections but a recent flurry of activity is injecting new life into the Israeli political system and shaking it up a bit.

Israeli President Shimon Peres told a movie and television industry audience at the Dreamworks Animation studio lot in Glendale Friday that Hollywood often wields more influence across the globe than world leaders do.

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What does American musical icon Bob Dylan have in common with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and ex-astronaut John Glenn? All are on the list of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the nation's highest civilian honor, present

Former President Bill Clinton spoke of "unknowable" death and destruction in earthquake-ravaged Haiti but said relief efforts are giving the impoverished nation "the best chance in its history to build a truly modern, functioning state."
Clinton, the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, spoke to major donors of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County on Tuesday night at The Breakers.
Clinton, fielding questions from PBS interviewer Charlie Rose as both sat in wing chairs, told the audience of about...

Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun" (HarperPerennial)
In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge and being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake. Aldous Huxley's brilliant book about this religious scandal was first published in the 1950s and has drifted in and out of print ever since. Now it's back, together with handsome...